Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 126 posts.

Crypto & Blockchain
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ICOs and VCs

The Brave browser team concluded an ICO for their Basic Attention Token yesterday in about thirty seconds. This led to this tweet: The Basic Attention Token (BAT) ICO just raised 30 million dollars in 24 seconds. VC’s didn’t even have time to put on a sweater vest. — briantobal (@briantobal) May 31, 2017 Of course…

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Cryptocurrency Evolution

Bitcoin has already undergone several forks. A fork defines a moment in time when a specific digital currency gets split into two different currencies. A couple months ago, a Bitcoin fork created Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Another fork just created Bitcoin Gold last week. Segwit 2x will follow next month.